A kiln in Kyoto sustains major damage due to construction of a hotel next door.

A memo written by a local government official apparently implicates Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a controversial project...

Service workers in Japan have the lowest labor productivity among five advanced countries in a new survey.

Master armor craftsmen continue a proud and exacting tradition of making armor 150 years after Japan said sayonara to fe...

A powerful quake rocks predawn Shimane Prefecture injuring at least five people.

An idol group works with local farmers and brewers to develop a pink sake in central Japan.

Japan's wrestling federation says its director has resigned for harassing a four-time Olympic women's wrestling medalist...

A woman mayor's request to make a speech in the sumo ring is rejected after female first responders were forced out of a...

A 69-year old man regularly takes photos of Mt. Fuji and shares its various expressions with the world.

A scandal over the suppression of logs on the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' Iraq mission rocks the Abe administration.